Nordhausen City Library
| City library "Rudolf Hagelstange" | |
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| founding | February 10, 1877 |
| Duration | 64,584 (December 31, 2017) |
| Library type | library |
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Nordhausen , Thuringia , Germany   
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| ISIL | DE-No10 |
| operator | City of Nordhausen |
| management | Hildegard Seidel |
| Website | www.bibliothek.nordhausen.de |
The Nordhausen City Library is a public library sponsored by the city of Nordhausen in Thuringia and serves as an information, cultural and educational center. It is named after the Nordhausen writer Rudolf Hagelstange and is located in the “Bürgerhaus” that was inaugurated in 2014.
history
On February 10, 1877, the Nordhausen public library was founded by associations and citizens of the city. A donation from the Jacob Plaut Foundation in 1905 made an expansion possible. In 1906 the library was moved to the municipal museum on Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz, where it reopened on February 18, 1907. It was given the name Jacob-Plaut-Volksbücherei , which it kept until 1933. In 1934, the facility began an unprecedented ambulatory existence that lasted until 1952. The building on Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz was needed again for school purposes and the library moved to Ritterstraße 3. The next few years brought more moves. With the beginning of the Second World War , the library was closed and the books were stored in the old town hall . In November 1939, however, it was reopened in the "Rosenthal'schen Haus" at the instigation of the responsible ministry; the house was completely destroyed in the air raids on Nordhausen in April 1945, almost all 9,000 books were lost.
In 1952 the library was reopened in the old town hall, and in 1978 the move to the villa on Wilhelm-Nebelung-Straße. From 1990 onwards, extensive reconstruction and renovation work began in and on the building thanks to the provision of funds. The library therefore had to move temporarily to the former town hall. On April 25, 1992, the facility reopened as the “Rudolf Hagelstange” city library. In 1998 the children's and youth library moved from the Flohburg .
On December 12, 2007, the Nordhausen city council decided to build a multi-purpose building on the site of the former St. Nikolai market church . Construction began in mid-2011 under the project title “Culture Library”; The city library opened in the “Bürgerhaus” on August 30, 2014 and has a public area of around 1500 square meters.
In 2013 the “Nicolai in foro e. V. “founded by citizens of Nordhausen; This has set itself the task of promoting the library, improving its range of literature and supporting events.
In October 2016 the “Quartier am Kornmarkt and Bürgerhaus” was awarded the Thuringian Library Prize.
In 2017 the library had 85,409 visitors, 5,543 "active users" and 127,094 loans.
Other names
- Nordhausen City and District Library (1955–1992)
- Nordhausen Public Library (1933–1955)
- Jacob Plaut Public Library (1907–1933)
- Nordhausen Public Library (1877–1907)
statistics
The Nordhausen City Library has a total media inventory of 64,584 media units (December 31, 2017), which is made up as follows:
| number | Genera |
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| 25,627 | Non-fiction |
| 14,053 | Children's and young people's literature |
| 13,488 | Fiction |
| 57,310 (8,548 own) | Virtual media in the network |
| 2,029 | Magazines |
| 64 | Magazine subscriptions |
| 9.114 | Non-book media |
The library is a member of the GBV and in the online loan ; Via the Thuringian online library ThueBIBnet , users have access to 57,310 media to download (December 31, 2017).
The library's special collection areas are the regional history of Nordhausen and the surrounding area, of the former Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp and works by the writer Rudolf Hagelstange .
literature
- Rainer Hellberg, Jörg-Michael Junker, Kersti Kramer: 125 years of the Nordhausen public library . Rudolf Hagelstange City Library, Nordhausen 2002. ISBN 3-9807032-5-8 , OCLC 76426783 .
Web links
- Literature from and about Nordhausen City Library in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature from and about Nordhausen City Library in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Official website
- Nordhausen City Library at NordhausenWiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Welt.de: Nordhausen Library receives a prize , October 26, 2016. Accessed November 1, 2016.